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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – September 10, 2019 <br /> <br />KS: Yes, above Kilohana check station. <br /> <br />TN: How far does the road go? <br /> <br />KS: I’m not sure how much all of the roads are – but I know the treatments that <br />were proposed is 7 ½ miles and so they’ve already done just mowing on 7 ½ <br />miles and then the treatment with herbicide was one mile. So 8 ½ miles total. <br />There’s more roads in that – but that’s the areas that we tend to do the <br />treatments on. <br /> <br />KS: So these are all after pictures of what the treatment with the herbicide looks <br />like after we cut back. In the email that I sent earlier – I don’t have one on <br />this, I’m sorry, but there is a before but I don’t have it right now for everybody <br />to see, I apologize, um, but this right here is the Firebreak 4 from the bottom <br />looking up that has been cleared back quite a ways and herbicide down to <br />bare mineral soil, um, and all of these pictures are of that Firebreak 4 of that <br />treatment. Any other questions? Any other concerns? <br /> <br />TN: Is this the area you said you was gonna contact me so I can go take a look at <br />what you guys... <br /> <br />KS: Yes... I’m sorry we didn’t have time to get up there... <br /> <br />TN: Yeah, I never got a call... <br /> <br />KS: But we haven’t done anything extra yet, so... We still need to work that out. <br />So this treatment was from a year ago and, but, we haven’t done anything <br />new but I do intend to go up there with you and I’m sorry I haven’t yet. <br /> <br />TN: Thank you. Cause I’d love to be up there. <br /> <br />KS: So I will give you a call - we haven’t done anything new since I talked to you <br />so we haven’t just gone forward with it, um, so we will get you up there. <br /> <br />GH: Grayson from District 6 what kind of environmental impact does the herbicide <br />have versus mowing? <br /> <br />KS: I think, you know herbicides – if we can minimize the amount of herbicide that <br />we use up there that’s our preferred method, um, initially we’ll have to do a <br />little bit of mulching of some of the shrubs and vegetation along the roads to <br />open it up but an added benefit of the mowing is that we feel like it’ll improve <br />bird habitat, especially along the roads and then also because of the soils are <br />so fine up there if you continue to herbicide certain areas then you get a lot of <br />dust problems so that’s another reason we’d like to minimize the herbicide <br />and just be able to mow as much as possible. <br />4 <br /> <br /> <br />